Industry Coordination Division of the National Development

Industry Coordination Division of the National Development and Reform Commission, the official said, remove disposable foam plastic dinnerware entry is mainly based on a variety of considerations: it meets the relevant standards of the national food packaging utensils; can be recycled after use; many countries and regions have been using;can save the oil resources; throw garbage behavior has been significantly reduced, and gradually establish a waste recycling system, originally introduced to prohibit the use of disposable foam plastic dinnerware environment has changed considerably, and to adjust the entry of "disposable foam plastic dinnerware"time is basically ripe.

Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Food Safety, toxicity problems for the masses are most concerned tableware, commissioned by the National Development and Reform Commission to inspection by the relevant national standards. Experimental results show that the disposable foam plastic dinnerware meet the relevant national standards.

In addition, the use of disposable foam plastic dinnerware by recycling, treatment, re-use, the production of building materials, paints, stationery and other products, the reuse of resources.

Development and Reform Commission, said outside mainland China the vast majority of countries and regions, such as the United States, European Union, Japan, has been in the production and use of disposable foam plastic tableware, disposable foam plastic dinnerware and continues to develop new products .

The official said that the disposable foam plastic dinnerware is light weight, less supplies, you can reduce the consumption of raw materials, oil conservation, resource conservation direction.

The late 1990s, "white pollution" caused by the large-scale use of disposable polystyrene foam plastic tableware (disposable foam plastic cutlery), China began shipping in railway stations and passenger trains, the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake and other inland waters. passenger ships and travel ban on the use on board. Development and Reform Commission released in December 2005, "Industrial Restructuring Guidance Catalogue (2005)" disposable foam plastic dinnerware "included in the phase-out of products.